Premodifiers in English : Their Structure and Significance

Name: Premodifiers in English
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107654846
Price: 6250 KES
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ISBN: 9781107654846

by Jim Feist

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in English Language

ISBN-10 110765484X

ISBN-13 9781107654846

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 17th, 2014

Print length 290 Pages

Weight 428 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology

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The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. This book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.

The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both 'German and English speakers' and 'English and German speakers'? Why do some premodifiers change the meaning of a phrase in some contexts; for example 'young man', can mean 'boyfriend', rather than 'man who is young'? Drawing on a corpus of over 4,000 examples of English premodifiers from a range of genres such as advertising, fiction and scientific texts, and across several varieties of English, this book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.

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